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Summer Term runs from Easter to mid-July (half term ends in late May/early June). At the end of each half-term a holiday lasts about one week (usually nine full days, including two weekends), although in the autumn term, some schools give students two week long holidays (16 full days, including 3 weekends) to account for the term being longer ...
This final report described Langley Wood as "a good school with outstanding features." [citation needed] In July 2004, Slough Borough Council, the local education authority, agreed to support the establishment of an academy on the Langley Wood site. [6] Langley Wood closed in July 2008 and was replaced by The Langley Academy in September 2008.
They include primary schools (95), secondary schools (21) and four further education establishments. [1] Croydon College has its main building in Croydon , it is a low rise building. [ 2 ] John Ruskin College [ 3 ] is one of the other colleges in the borough, located in Addington and Coulsdon College [ 4 ] in Coulsdon .
In 1714, Tenison, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, founded a school for some "ten poor boys and ten poor girls" at North End, Croydon, [1]: 72 on a site which is now close to Croydon’s shopping centre. Just over 300 years and three sites later, it is thought that the School is the oldest surviving continuously mixed-sex school in the world.
Work on Ashburton Learning Village, Shirley Road, Croydon, started in June 2004 but plans to redevelop the school had been in the pipeline since 2001, when Croydon Council secured government backing from the then Department for Education and Employment through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
The town of Croydon's first local authority was a body of improvement commissioners established in 1829. [4] They were superseded in 1849 by an elected local board. [5] [6] The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1883, after which it was governed by a body formally called the "Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Croydon", generally known as the corporation, town council ...
Previously a voluntary aided school administered by Croydon London Borough Council, [4] in November 2022 Coloma Convent Girls' School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by SELCAT, [ 5 ] but continues to be under the jurisdiction of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark .
The proposal is supported by Slough Borough Council and the governing bodies of the two schools. [9] The plan would result in the first closure of a grammar school since 1997. [ 10 ] In March 2009 the DCSF responded with a Statement of Intent letter, inviting the Council to develop concrete plans (an Expression of Interest document), with a ...